UK Statutory Instrument
2012
United Kingdom
Charitable Incorporated Organisations (General) Regulations 2012
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What this Act requires
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Schedules
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Information as to state of register
Names and former names
Single member CIO
Removal of entries relating to former members after 10 years
Register of charity trustees
Updating registers
Registers to be kept available for inspection
Members register: rights of access
Trustees register: rights of access
Information relating to charity trustees: grounds for refusal
Application of this Schedule
Communications in hard copy form: introduction
Method of communication in hard copy form
Address for communications in hard copy form
Communications in electronic form: introduction
Conditions for use of communications in electronic form
Address for communications in electronic form
Application of this Schedule
Implicit agreement of members to use of website
Availability of document or information on website
Notification of availability on website
Period of availability of website
Communications in hard copy form: introduction
Method of communication in hard copy form
Address for communications in hard copy form
Communications in electronic form: introduction
Conditions for use of communications in electronic form
Address for communications in electronic form
Communications by means of a website: introduction
Agreement to use of website
Amendment of the Charities (Exception from Registration and Accounts) Regulations 1965
Amendment of the Charities (Exception of Universities from Registration) Regulations 1966
Amendment of the Charities (Misleading Names) Regulations 1992
Amendment of the Charities (Exception from Registration) Regulations 1996
Amendment of the Charities (Exception from Registration) Regulations 2008
Amendment of the Charities (Exception from Registration) Regulations 2010
Browse 63 other sections — procedural / definitional / commencement
Citation and commencement
Interpretation: general
Interpretation: bodies corporate and associated bodies corporate
Interpretation: hard copy, electronic form and related expressions
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Application of registration provisions in
Applications for registration: communications with Commission
Applications for registration: information to be included
Applications for amalgamation: information to be included
Transfer of accounting records on amalgamation
Retention of accounting records after amalgamation
Interpretation
Matters to be provided for in constitution
Constitution not to restrict ability to dispose of property
Provision for entrenchment
Date of resolution amending constitution
Provision for entrenchment: statement of compliance
Effect of amendment of constitution on members
CIO contracts
Execution of documents
Execution of deeds
Execution of deeds or other documents by attorney
Common seal
Official seal for use abroad
Bills of exchange and promissory notes
Requirement to keep registers
Power of Commission to order rectification of register of members
Power of court to order rectification of register of members
Register of members to be evidence
Time limit for claims arising from entry in register of members
Eligibility for appointment as charity trustee
Validity of acts of charity trustee
Delegation and appointment of nominees
Duty not to accept benefits from third parties
Notice of resolutions to be proposed at a general meeting
Charity trustee with personal interest in decision
Records to be kept of charity trustees’ decisions
Charity trustee minutes as evidence
Charity trustee decision records as evidence
Power of court or Commission to order meeting
Records to be kept of members’ decisions
Records as evidence of members’ decisions
Records of decisions by sole member
Inspection of records of decisions and meetings
Records of resolutions and meetings of classes of members
CIO records
Service of documents on CIO
Service of documents on charity trustees
The CIO communications provisions
Sending or supplying documents or information
CIO’s implied agreement to receive information in electronic form
Member’s right to hard copy
Information sent by CIO: time of receipt
Commission’s requirements as to form etc of document
Agreement with Commission to send by electronic means
Requirements for proper delivery to Commission
Commission’s power to accept document not properly delivered
Replacement of document not properly delivered to Commission
Interpretation of the CIO communications provisions
Fraudulent trading
Pre-merger vesting declarations
Notes to CIO’s accounts and statement
Consequential amendments to secondary legislation
Enforcement and responsible bodies
The regulators that administer or enforce this legislation.
Charity Commission for England and Wales
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